On the morning of June 6, 2006, Chinese composer Hao Weiya (pictured), then a visiting scholar at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome, was woken by a phone call from China.
Qingdao, in Shandong province, is a beautiful seaside city, no doubt about it. However, many locals say that if visitors don't take a walk on its stone steps, they can't say they have really been there.
Lying on the south coast of the Shandong Peninsula, Qingdao is directly served by air or passenger train services, making it easily accessible from any of the major cities.
There is a famous Mongolian folk song Aobao Xianghui (Let's Meet at the Aobao) that most Chinese people can sing. The song describes a young fellow waiting anxiously for his girlfriend beside an aobao on a moonlit night.
About one in 10 Thais claim Chinese ancestry, and today, Bangkok's Chinatown is the site of their umbilical ties to the motherland.
An academy lying in the foothills of west Beijing may not catch the eyes of passers-by, but it is a must-visit for many countries' military leaders, including United States former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld and chief of the US Pacific command Timothy Keating.
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